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The schedules office writes "Room E19-202 is a department space, and is not managed by the Registrar’s Office. I can refer your request over to that department, but I can’t guarantee turnaround time or availability. For DLC (department/labs/center) managed spaces, our team creates a request and refers it over to the individual department on a student group's behalf. If the Squares are still interested in using E19-202 for your meetings, I can create a separate request in the system. However, it can sometimes take quite a while to hear back."
The Foundry is a community space a few blocks from the Kendall Square T stop. As of 2022, the price for the 1079 square foot dance studio (with "sprung wooden flooring") for a weekly recurring reservation is $35/hr. The room size is comparable to 36-112, while the price is comparable to E15, so either of those choices would probably be better than this one. However, this could be useful if non-MIT space is needed. The one-time non-weekly price is $70/hr. There are also several other spaces with various sizes and costs. A sliding scale is available, based on organization operating income. I assume this would be based on MIT operating income, not on Tech Squares operating income. If its based on Tech Squares operating income, though, the cost would be free. Unfortunately, the venue also closes at 8 PM.
The Community Art Center (119 Windsor St, a block from Royal East) appears to have a few spaces that would work. http://www.communityartcenter.org/space-rental-inquiries has information about space rental, but they did not respond to a webform inquiry in Summer 2017, so try using e-mail instead. http://schoolofhonk.org/ uses their space, so you can check some of their YouTube videos to get a feel for the space. Unfortunately their web page says space rental ends at 10 PM. I assume this means we have to be out of the building by 10 PM, but maybe we only have to end our event at 10 PM, in which case using the space may be more feasible. We do not have any details about cost at this time.
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